microsoft / microsoft/terminal
focusFollowMouse delay
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Description
Allow a user-configurable delay to the 'focusFollowMouse' feature
Windows itself allows us to set a delay for its focus-follows-mouse feature, it would be nice if Terminal did too.
Ideally this would not be "additive" to Windows delay. E.g. this scenario:
- I have both delays set to 500ms
- I have two panes open in terminal, pane A and pane B
- I exit the Terminal window with pane A focussed
- I re-enter the Terminal window via pane B's area
then I should not have to wait 1000ms for pane B to gain focus, only 500ms.
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Research direction
The issue identifies the focusFollowMouse feature but names no file or test. Start by locating that feature and tracing how Windows and Terminal focus delays interact; done means the delay is user-configurable and the two delays are not added together.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100